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SubjectRe: i386 boot & mm gurus' advice needed (int 0x15/0xE820 support)
Hello,

> > It might be better to use one kbyte from PARAM+1024 as it's guaranteed
> > to be free (see Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt).
>
> Huh ?
>
> >From Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt :
> 0x224 unsigned short setup.S heap end pointer
> 0x226 - 0x7ff setup.S code.
>
> 0x800 string, 256bytes COMMAND_LINE, the kernel commandline as
> copied using CL_OFFSET.
> Note: this will be copied once more by setup.c
> into a local buffer which is only 256 bytes long.
> ( #define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 256 )
> ---------------
> (my patched version, of course, but that applies only to the length of
> whatever is at 0x800)
>
> I actually tried the place at 0x400 -- it did froze at boot (wonder why
> :-))

I meant using it as a final destination -- first fetch it to some
temporary buffer and then move it there -- see do_move in setup.S.

Have a nice fortnight
--
Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
"God doesn't play dice." -- Albert Einstein

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